Going Upriver: The Long War of John Kerry

This nonpartisan documentary seeks to identify the sparks that made John Kerry and so many others of his generation so eager to serve their country.

"...If you were thinking that Going Upriver: The Long War of John Kerry is just one more entry in..."

Oct. 1, 2004 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

El Paso Council Wants to End the War on Drugs

El Paso council is calling for an honest discussion on how to end the failing War on Drugs

"...honest discussion about the possibility of ending the drug war, Mayor John Cook wants nothing to do with such..."

Jan. 12, 2009 News Post by Jordan Smith

Fighting the War: Wilkerson sentenced, activists press Congress

Soldier faces seven months in prison for refusing Iraq service

"...discharge, for going absent without leave from the Iraq war. He will join more than 25 other soldiers nationwide..."

March 2, 2007 News Feature by Justin Ward

In Buda, Mini-Golf and War Memorial Are Ingeniously Paired

A veteran's story inspires across generations at the Memorial Miniature Golf and World War II Museum

"...an 18-hole miniature golf course built to honor World War II veterans...."

April 30, 2021 Arts Feature by Ali Montag

Greg Casar Hopes to Chart New Path for Democrats as Chair of Progressive Caucus

The sophomore rep gets tapped for top position

"...dignity of LGBTQ Americans a front in the culture war. The right wing of the party has shown signs..."

Dec. 5, 2024 News Post by Austin Sanders

Chaos in Tejas Live (Finale): Power Trip, World War 4, Rival Mob

Daytime hardcore stomp and thrash fury

"...Maybe Boston’s World War 4 – not to be confused with the 99..."

June 3, 2013 Music Post by Richard Whittaker

The Spoils of War

Blood and sorrow in the films of Southeast Europe

"...European Film Festival, or SEEFest, the program winds from war-ravaged Bosnia (in the bleak comic-drama Fuse) to postwar, economically..."

April 6, 2012 Screens Feature by Kimberley Jones

Class War

Homeless Hearing Stinks Up Council Chambers

"...chambers last week were the makings of a class war. Crisply dressed businesspeople sporting newly printed "Keep the Camping..."

Aug. 8, 1997 News Column by Kayte VanScoy

Wal-Mart War: Southside Goes It Alone

South Austin neighbors hire their own engineers and planners to salvage the Blunn Creek Supercenter project

"...on Ben White between South Congress and I-35 -- forward (on consent) on second reading only. This will allow..."

Nov. 21, 2003 News Feature by Amy Smith

The Wal-Mart War

Citizens continue to battle the Beast of Bentonville on several Southside fronts

"...way, the city Zoning and Platting Commission will be fast-forwarding its action on a proposed South Austin Supercenter and..."

Sept. 19, 2003 News Feature by Amy Smith

Heaven & Earth

"...and made a woman-focused melodrama: perhaps some filmmaker like Howard Hawks directing some long-suffering doyenne like Jane Wyman in..."

Dec. 24, 1993 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Love and Death in Saigon

"...sorts, set during the final days of the Vietnam war, in which we come to understand how Chow's multi-sided..."

June 10, 1994 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Uranus

"...and Michel Blanc. What did you do during the war? It's 1945 in a little town in France after..."

Dec. 6, 1991 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

1917

World War I drama shows heroism in saving, not taking, lives

"...reverential depiction of one run across no-man’s-land in World War I, is both a vivid re-creation of a time..."

Jan. 10, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Sir! No Sir!

The GI anti-war movement during the Vietnam war is recounted in this revelatory documentary whose current implications cannot be underestimated.

"...skittish about making movies that concentrate on America’s Vietnam war experience, our country’s popular imagery of the anti-war movement..."

May 19, 2006 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Prophecy

"...a failed priest starts turning up clues that point toward otherworldly murders, he becomes involved in a literal war..."

Sept. 8, 1995 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

For Greater Glory

This epic starring Andy Garcia about Mexico’s anticlerical Cristero War of the late 1920s is a plodding and poorly plotted tale.

"...This epic about Mexico’s Cristero War of the late 1920s is a plodding and poorly..."

June 1, 2012 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Lucky Ones

Tim Robbins effectively heads an engaging threesome of Iraq war vets as they travel across America on a road to personal growth.

"...not been terribly kind to movies about the Iraq war or the soldiers who wage it. The Lucky Ones..."

Sept. 26, 2008 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Gridiron Gang

The Rock's moral football tale is a pleasant surprise: a swift, sure-footed, and gritty melodrama that plays to the strengths of its formula and elicits empathy for its kids.

"...team's tiny, loudmouthed waterboy), but mostly the movie barrels toward you, stiff-armed. Joanou mounts the game sequences with gladiatorial..."

Sept. 15, 2006 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Down Periscope

"...Directed by: David S. Ward. Starring: Kelsey Grammer, Lauren Holly, Rob Schneider, Harry Dean..."

March 8, 1996 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Stepping Razor -- Red X

"...at one time helped unite both Michael Manley and Edward Seago -- the island's on again-off again prime ministers..."

Feb. 11, 1994 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

American Cyborg: Steel Warrior

"...bear children in the wake of a global nuclear war. Her mission? Escape from the ruinous, glowing city and..."

Jan. 7, 1994 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Little Stranger

A very British ghost story takes unexpected turns

"...but not really. Set in the aftermath of World War II, this seductive adaptation of Susan Waters’ well-received 2009..."

Aug. 31, 2018 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Bless Me, Ultima

This honest, earnest, and naturalistic kids’ story about growing up Mexican-American in 1940s New Mexico is based on the popular book.

"...healer – in New Mexico during the Second World War. Even though the novel has been included on a..."

Feb. 22, 2013 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Man From U.N.C.L.E.

Napoleon Solo and and Illya Kuryakin don't transition well to the present

"...on the part of a studio (in this case, Warner Bros.) to throw some money at an existing property..."

Aug. 14, 2015 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Allied

WWII espionage thriller can't hold a candle to Casablanca

"...Bombs away! The World War II espionage romance Allied is a big movie: big..."

Nov. 23, 2016 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Body of Lies

Leonardo DiCaprio and Russell Crowe star in Ridley Scott's new film about the different types of CIA operatives fighting the global war on terrorism.

"...Hoffman as a paunchy company man who conducts the war on terrorism from the comfort of his living room...."

Oct. 10, 2008 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Poseidon

A handful of talented actors checked their egos at the door in hopes of … something, but this Poseidon is a wash.

"...(no stranger to submersibles, he helmed the brilliant, World War II-era U-Boat suspenser Das Boot) had cast his film..."

May 12, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Timeline

Time-traveling archeologists can't make the time pass quickly enough.

"...of an ancient village destroyed during the Hundred Years’ War. Johnston’s son Chris (Walker of The Fast and the..."

Nov. 28, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Smells Like Victory

For a change, this November's state elections might actually be interesting.

"...our noses and vote for. But apparently we don't.The War Party Among the reasons those polls remain unusually uncertain..."

Oct. 4, 2002 News Column by Michael King

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